I'm sure the mainframe itself is ironclad. It's the programs that crashed all the time, the fact they couldn't scale the load to match growth in time, they coul

I'm sure the mainframe itself is ironclad. It's the programs that crashed all the time, the fact they couldn't scale the load to match growth in time, they couldnt get developers to make updates at the volume required. As a platform for the business it was as stable and reliable as sand in a hurricane.